Nosmo King
Gold Member
We sat back in incredulity as politics and entertainment melded as one festering sore named Trump. We watched him act imperiously in his reality television show. We sat transfixed as he meted out justice for transgressions committed by the likes of D list celebrities. And, apparently, we loved it. As an aside, I have never been a fan of reality television. If I wanted to watch low brow, uncultured morons shout at one another, I could go and park in the nearest public housing project parking lot and watch to my heart's content.
But suddenly, Trump wasn't just hocking tacky properties, overpriced steaks, rot gut wines and phony 'universities'. Suddenly he was promoting outlandish conspiracy theories like the legitimacy of President Obama's birth certificate. He gained prominence among the unwashed who held racist prejudices against the President. When Trump announced he was to run for President as a Republican, I thought I had misunderstood. To me, he should have been running no as a joke.
But he ran and did his level best to keep anything like a campaign of ideas from happening. His was a campaign of personality. Now, his brand of personality is one unworthy of respect as he has shown such little respect himself.
But that same crowd who watched politics and entertainment meld together share the same loathesome characteristics of personality. Crude, simplistic, boorish and prone to bullying, Trump's supporters had a relief valve for their frustrations at last. They see him as someone who 'tells it like it is'. That is to say, he tells it without nuance, grace, a purpose of unity and consideration. No deep intellect, no thought for consequence.
Disagree with The Donald and feel his wrath. Quicker to attack than think, any and all dissent is quashed. Without an understanding of history, he swaggers through the attention not understanding that his brand of comportment is the womb of revolt.
And now we are wed to this creep for the foreseeable future. Until scandal or some latter day Arthur Bremmer up and does what needs to be done, the American people must suffer the embarrassment at best, ruination at worst of the heavy, clumsy and crude hand of the huckster buffoon sitting, not in the White House but at one of his properties at our expense.
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But suddenly, Trump wasn't just hocking tacky properties, overpriced steaks, rot gut wines and phony 'universities'. Suddenly he was promoting outlandish conspiracy theories like the legitimacy of President Obama's birth certificate. He gained prominence among the unwashed who held racist prejudices against the President. When Trump announced he was to run for President as a Republican, I thought I had misunderstood. To me, he should have been running no as a joke.
But he ran and did his level best to keep anything like a campaign of ideas from happening. His was a campaign of personality. Now, his brand of personality is one unworthy of respect as he has shown such little respect himself.
But that same crowd who watched politics and entertainment meld together share the same loathesome characteristics of personality. Crude, simplistic, boorish and prone to bullying, Trump's supporters had a relief valve for their frustrations at last. They see him as someone who 'tells it like it is'. That is to say, he tells it without nuance, grace, a purpose of unity and consideration. No deep intellect, no thought for consequence.
Disagree with The Donald and feel his wrath. Quicker to attack than think, any and all dissent is quashed. Without an understanding of history, he swaggers through the attention not understanding that his brand of comportment is the womb of revolt.
And now we are wed to this creep for the foreseeable future. Until scandal or some latter day Arthur Bremmer up and does what needs to be done, the American people must suffer the embarrassment at best, ruination at worst of the heavy, clumsy and crude hand of the huckster buffoon sitting, not in the White House but at one of his properties at our expense.
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